Shakespeare, who was considered the English Corneille, flourished at about the time of Lope de Vega. He had a strong and fertile g...enius, full of naturalness and sublimity, without the slightest spark of good taste or the least knowledge of the rules.... After two hundred years most of the outlandish and monstrous ideas of this author have acquired the right to be considered sublime, and almost all modern authors have copied him.... It does not occur to people that they should not copy him, and the lack of success of their copies simply makes people think that he is inimitable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poor workers! First they're cuckolded, and, as if that weren't enough, then they're beaten! Work's a curse, Saturno. I say to hell... with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you've heard the call, you've got a vocation--that's ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno--I don't work. And I don't care if they hang me, I won't work! Yet I'm alive! I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index,... and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own ... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this pla...net is death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in Paris? They got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the fuck a qua...rter pounder is. They call it "royale with cheese."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »